$250,000 bond in attack on mom

February 15, 2003

HARVEY — A Cook County judge on Friday set bond at $250,000 for Jacob Shaw, 21, of Harvey, who is accused of striking his mother in the head with a baseball bat and keeping her tied up for several days in their basement.

Shaw said he was depressed over his inability to hold a job or to stay in college and thought his mother, Cheryl Dreakford, 51, planned to put him out of the house in the 300 block of Calumet Boulevard on Sunday, police said.

Dreakford freed herself Tuesday evening and fled to the home of a neighbor, police said.